Elizabeth Dunford, a nutrition epidemiologist, studies additives in ultra-processed foods and their impact on health.

Medically reviewed by Jamie Johnson, RDN Key Takeaways Some additives have been linked to health issues and increased chronic disease risk.“Eating clean” may include reducing exposure to some harmful ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick for the nation's top health post, has vowed to "get the chemicals out" of America's food amid mounting concerns over the health effects of ...

Ultra-processed foods are everywhere, but some additives are more harmful than others. Elizabeth Dunford is a nutritional ...

Reading the ingredient list on packaged food can leave you feeling bamboozled. Especially when it comes to the names and numbers of food additives, which are often completely unidentifiable and ...

Food additives definitely deserve more attention than is given to them. They are substances that are added to food to give it interesting colour, taste and to increase it's shelf life. Nutritionist ...

More than 10,000 additives, processing aids, and monomers are used to make plastics, with about 2,400 identified as potentially hazardous, according to the results of a comprehensive study cataloging ...

Because it is something I feed my family, I would like to avoid additives if possible. However, when I look at the back of a ...